KAMAL HAASAN

39 seats in Tamil Nadu are voting in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 24. Even though Tamil Nadu is witnessing a multi-corner contest, the main fight is between chief minister J Jayalalithaa led AIADMK and M Karunanidhi-MK Stalin led DMK.
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The names of the recipients of the prestigious Padma Awards for the year 2014 were announced on Monday. The list featured some faces from the film world as well. Bollywood actors Vidya Balan, Kamal Haasan were among the Padma Award 2014 winners.
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Shah Rukh Khan on Saturday was conferred with Chevalier Sivaji Award, constituted after veteran Tamil actor Sivaji Ganeshan, in Chennai at the 7th edition of Vijay awards. Shah Rukh received the award from the hands of Kamal Haasan, Vijay and members from the family of Sivaji Ganeshan.
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They are known to have a crazy fan following and are even worshiped in their home turf down south, but when it comes to translating that magic in Bollywood most southern stars seem to be missing the bull's eye!
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Kamal Haasan's Vishwaroopam was finally released in Tamil Nadu across 600 theatres. Our Correspondent caught up with the actor and got him talking about the reception the film is getting at the box office and also inviting the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister to watch the film.
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We saw it in case of Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam', Salman Rushdie's visit to Kolkata and most recently, in the case of Kashmir's first all girls rock band and art exhibitions in Delhi and Bangalore; creative freedom seems to be at the receiving end of protests by fringe groups. Here's the...

Mani Ratnam's 'Kadal' and Bejoy Nambiar's 'David' which released last Friday have both failed to impress at the box office. Coming up next is Kamal Haasan's much delayed 'Vishwaroopam' which will hit the screens in Tamil Nadu on February 7.
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The Hindi version of Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam', which released on February 1 in 800 screens across cities has fared well at the box office. Made at Rs 95 crore, the film has grossed Rs 7.65 crore approximately in its opening weekend.
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'Vishwaroop' is unabashedly entertaining although you'll wish it was smarter. The twists in 'Vishwaroop' work, and writerdirector Haasan shifts between the past and the present in surprising, sometimes spoofy, cuts.
'David' makes a subtle but welltaken point about the building communal and religious tension of its times.
'Midnight's Children' has an episodic...

The sociologist, who got a major reprieve on Friday after the SC directed the police not to arrest him over his remarks on Dalits, said that it would be "nice to have some sceptical view on some of these protests".
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As Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa came out strongly in defence of the ban imposed on the screening of Kamal Haasanstarrer 'Vishwaroopam', IBN18 EditorinChief Rajdeep Sardesai asks Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari if the government is helpless in front of states when it comes to law and order.
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First signs of a possible compromise in Tamil Nadu emerge over the ban on Kamal Haasan's film 'Vishwaroopam'. At a press conference in Mumbai the actor and director thanked Chief Minister Jayalalitha for clarifying she had nothing to do with the ban.
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Shah Rukh Khan's essay on being a Khan that was published in a weekly magazine led to a debate over his security on January 29. Just a day later, Salman Rushdie and the team of 'Midnight's Children' had to cancel their Kolkata promotional tour at the last minute. This after...

There is possible trouble for Kamal Haasan's 'Visgwaroopam' in North India as well. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said he will take a call on banning the Hindi version 'Vishwaroop' after watching it. Samajwadi Party leaders say the movie could be banned in UP if it hurts the sentiments...

Censor board chairperson Leela Samson welcomed the government's step of considering amendments to the Cinematograph Act. Leela Samson said, "If the government comes up with this, it is the best news I have heard in a long time. We have been defending ourselves in Chennai against what the attorney said...

The Madras High Court on Tuesday stayed the release of Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam' in Tamil Nadu till February 6, even as an emotional actor and producer Haasan threatened to leave the country and caved into the demand of deleting certain scenes from the film.
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Kamal Haasan got a late night relief from the Madras High Court after the court decided to put in abeyance the prohibitory orders issued by the Tamil Nadu government to delay Vishwaroopam's release. But the relief could be short lived as the Tamil Nadu government has appealed against the order.
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